Safety-razor.



W. WINTER.

SAFETY RAZOR.

Patented J an. 16, 1912.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPII 60., WASHING WILLIAM WINTER, 0F INDIANAPOLIS,INDIANA.

SAFETY RAZOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1912.

Application filed March 30, 1911. Serial No. 617,959.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WINTER, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, haveinvented a certain useful Safety-Razor; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact de scription thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a safety razor of an improvedtype which will have a minimum number ofparts, easily put together,capable of being easily cleaned without being taken apart, andpresenting no danger of injury to the operator in mounting or removingthe cutting blade and of such durable and yetsimple construction as willrender the manufacture thereof rapid and inexpensive.

The nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanyingdrawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of the safety razor withparts in place ready for use. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, drawn to a larger scale.Fig. 41 is a rear elevation showing the blade holder partially withdrawnfrom the frame. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 isa side elevation showing the blade holder disengaged from the frame andready to have a new blade inserted.

In detail the device consists of a frame 10 surrounding and holding ablade holder 11 on which rests a thin cutting blade 12 which is heldfirmly between the frame 10 and the holder 11 when these two are broughttogether. The frame is made of thin sheet metal bent back upon itself13a-long the front edge to form the shoulder 14 and at the rear bent onthe arc of a circle so as to leave an opening of about ninety degrees,and then-in a downwardly direction to join a tubular handle 15. Theconnection between the handle and the frame being quite thin, a certainamount of play or spring is thus introduced into the connection.

The rear of the blade holder 11 is formed in a tubular shape 16 and thenextends in a direction normal to the circumference of the tube to apoint 17 where there is an ofiset or raised shoulder and then normallyto the tube again to form a resting place 18 for the 'roll is slightlylonger than the blade and the ends serve as guards for the sharp cornersof the blade. On each lateral edge of the blade holder there is anupwardly extending spring catch 21 which is adapted to engage the rigidportion 13 of the frame and hold the blade rigidly between the holderand the frame.

The cutting blade 12 is rectangular in shape with its length about twiceits width and is made of thin tempered steel of a uniform thickness withone of the longer edges sharpened, while over the opposite edge is benta piece of soft steel in U-shape to form the shoulders 20 on each sideof the plate.

In assembling the parts for use, the blade 12 is placed on the bladeholder 11 with one of the shoulders 20 resting against the shoulder 17of the holder and with the flat part of the blade resting on the plate18 of the holder after which the tubular portion 16 is slightlycompressed, entered in the curved portion of the frame, and pressed inuntil the catches 21 are opposite the ends of the frame when the bladeholder is raised and the catches engaged on the upper side of the plate13 of the spring frame and the upper fiat portion of the blade and theupper shoul- 'der 20 thereof brought into contact with and held againstmovement with the plate 13 and the shoulder 17 respectively.

I claim as my invention:

1. A safety razor including a relatively fixed frame plate, a bladeholding plate adapted to slip longitudinally into connection with saidframe plate so as to be flexibly mounted with relation thereto, andmeans at each lateral edge of the blade holding plate for clamping saidtwo plates together for holding the blade between them.

2. A safety razor including a handle, a loop-like frame of spring metalwith one member of said frame secured to the handle and the other memberforming a plate and said frame at the union between the members andadapted to slip longitudinally into the my signature in the presence ofthe witnesses girculgr part (1)11? the frirlne ind be hell therehereinnamed.

an pivota ymova et erein, an s ring c tches at each side of said bladeholding WILLIAM WINTER 5' plate adapted to clasp the frame plate forWitnesses:

holding the blade. G. H. BOINK,

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto afiixed O. M. MOLAUGHLIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for fire cents eaeh gbf addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

. Washington, D. 0.

